English Dictionary

connive

IPA（発音記号）

/kəˈnaɪv/

動詞

自動詞 稀用 廃用

(intransitive) To secretly cooperate with other people in order to commit a crime or other wrongdoing; to collude, to conspire.

日本語の意味

密かに犯罪などに加担する、共謀する / 内密に結託する、共に非行に加担する

Several staff members connive to smuggle artifacts out of the museum.

数人の職員が博物館から美術品を密かに持ち出すために共謀している。

意味（1）

(intransitive) To secretly cooperate with other people in order to commit a crime or other wrongdoing; to collude, to conspire.

I might say, / That who despairs, acts; that who acts, connives / With God's relations set in time and space; …

意味（2）

(intransitive, botany, rare) Of parts of a plant: to be converging or in close contact; to be connivent.

This species … differs from other species of this genus in the upper pinnæ being contracted, which are sinuously lobed, each lacinæ and lobe bearing a sorus, furnished with a nearly orbicular indusium, the free exterior margin of which connives with the margin of the lobe, …

意味（3）

(intransitive, obsolete) Often followed by at: to pretend to be ignorant of something in order to escape blame; to ignore or overlook a fault deliberately.

For ſince the affairs of the world have in them the varieties and perplexities beſides, it happens that in ſome caſes men know not how to govern by the ſtricteſt meaſures of religion, becauſe all men will not do their duty upon that account; and therefore laws are not made … with exact and pureſt meaſures, but in compliance and by neceſſity, not always as well as they ſhould, but as well as they may: and therefore the Civil power is forc'd ſometimes to connive at what it does not approve.

意味（4）

(intransitive, obsolete) To open and close the eyes rapidly; to wink.

The artist is to teach them how to nod judiciously, and to connive with either eye, and, in a word, the whole practice of political grimace.

connives （ present singular third-person ）

conniving （ participle present ）

connived （ participle past ）

connived （ past ）

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en-conj-simple （ inflection-template ）

connive （ infinitive ）